by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Ohlone College was awarded 6 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general social sciences.
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College Factual ranked Ohlone College as #566 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
Ohlone College also holds the #70 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Ohlone College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At Ohlone College, this rate is 25 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Ohlone College is 30%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 77% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Ohlone College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 9,060 undergraduates at Ohlone College with 3,309 being full-time and 5,751 being part-time.
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Ohlone College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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Contact details for Ohlone College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 43600 Mission Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539-0390 |
| Phone: | 510-659-6000 |
| Website: | www.ohlone.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Social Sciences | 551 | NA |
| Mathematics | 225 | NA |
| Accounting | 195 | NA |
| General Business/Commerce | 108 | NA |
| Computer Science | 91 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 83 | NA |
| Chemistry | 81 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 75 | NA |
| General Psychology | 57 | NA |
| Economics | 56 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 5,375 students took at least one online class at Ohlone College. This is an increase from the 5,357 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 5,375 | 2,746 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,357 | 2,193 |
| 2020-2021 | 5,370 | 1,805 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,043 | 1,267 |
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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